Monte Vista Community Ambulance Service

Analysis

Monte Vista Community Ambulance Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Monte Vista, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Monte Vista Community Ambulance Service reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.2m, leaving 20% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.5m (+29%), an average of +6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Monte Vista Community Ambulance Service sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include CSN Enterprise Inc ($1.5m), American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Inc ($1.5m) and Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 31% and program service revenue 68% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $56k (4.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $345k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $21k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 28 employees.